[kevinjohngallagher]

I’m afraid that I don’t know of any quality premium bbPress theme website. There might be one or two out there, but as it stands I don’t know about it.

For the most part, this is due to people wanting a bbPress theme that matches their WordPress theme, and also for a lack of customer base. The idea of selling a theme is grand if you’re going to sell a significant number of them, other wise you have to decide if you get a significant Return on Investment.

If you’ve any special theme needs, please feel free to contact me on:

themes [at] kevinjohngallagher.com

Kev

[ian.forest]

Are there any websites anywhere offering premium themes for bbPress? I’ve looked around and they all look pretty standard and not so great.

The default one is nice, but I do like the one used on this website but I doubt that is available anywhere.

So, premium themes anyone?

[frankpereiro]

I think this is great. I mean, I installed phpbb3 in my site and have been regreting it since users became more and more active.

I have a question, though. I’ve spent three days looking for some info (at google, wordpress, etc) and I think this is the right place.

Do I have to upload the bbpress files into the same directory where the phpbb files are right now or the new bbpress files can be anywhere? I’ve read that the database must be the same. My guess is that the files can be anywhere but I just want to make sure.

[chrishajer]

Not being an apologist for the lack of “subscribe to topic” here, but you can always create your own RSS to email subscriptions with either Feedblitz or Feedburner.

There is an RSS feed for this forum:

https://bbpress.org/forums/rss/forum/requests-and-feedback

Or this topic:

https://bbpress.org/forums/rss/topic/replace-the-mailing-list-with-a-forum

And there are additional RSS feeds throughout (recent topics and recent posts.) If you really want the information pushed to you, so you don’t have to check back, there are ways to make it happen.

Of course, subscribe to topic is in trunk now, but seems to be missing from this bbpress.org theme (in my view anyway, and possibly yours as well.)

[chrishajer]

I don’t see subscribe to topic here either. It’s supposed to be near the tags according to kevinjohngallagher, but I don’t see it when I am logged in.

What is your question about themes? You upload with FTP or SCP to your bbPress installation, into a folder called my-templates. Be sure the my-templates folder has 755 permissions, then your new theme folder has 755 permissions. And be sure it’s not inside ANOTHER folder. So, it should be like this:

bb-config.php

my-templates/

----bbpressblack/

style.css (with your header)

Should not be like this:

bb-config.php

my-templates/

----bbpressblack/

bbpressblack/

style.css (with your header)

I don’t think that would work

[copperblade]

(Oh and by the way, on this new theme at bbPress.org I don’t see subscribe to topic like I have currently in trunk…)

[chrishajer]

That’s not an error, it’s just a warning. If you turn off the display of warnings, does the plugin work?

If not, what version of bbPress are you using, what version of the plugin, and have you tried contacting the plugin author?

[nacclan]

Just a quick question. I have installed bbPress and I use the Blue theme but I would like to change the white background to a dark gray so the whole page looks the same.

I edited the style.css in the kakumei and found the ‘fff’ color for white and changed it but the large header text is black (default) and looks bad. Is there a main style I am missing to change this so It looks correct?

I would like to completely customize it to the site to blend it in.

Any help is much appr.

[hpguru]

Google – Your best friend

http://www.google.com/search?hl=fi&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fbbpress.org%2Fforums%2F+%22bbpress+is+already+installed%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

[worklife]

I am having the same problem you had when you installed bbPress. The install went well with a message of 1 error and then notified me that “Installation was successful” and I received the Welcome and Login email. However, when I try and login, it defaults to the “install.php” and gives me the message: “bbPress is already installed.”

Can you help?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Unread post/topics – Is it really hard to made this?

1) Yes

2) There’s a plugin for this for just over 2 years.

Quoating and Posting reply

Roughly 2 years. But uses JavaScript.

i cant stay manual formatin of text with HTML. Its such waste of our time!

Loads of plugins for this. I know mine are from early 2008, and I’m sure _ck_’s bbcode lite and bbcode buttons are from before then.

Allowed quicktags.

That function. I dont know how change allowed tags. Right now Its not soo important…

“Tags are over-rated. People simply don’t use them – especially non-techy people who see the value. We have 7038 topics on bbPress.org and yet 35/39 Tags have less than 25 topics, the other 4 have more (but pagination doesn’t work in the new theme). Even if we don’t attempt to count duplicates, bbpress.org has less than 10% of all topics tagged. If we were to check for duplicates, it would definately half”

-https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1243

Automatic tags

Apart from my answer above.

There has been a plugin for this for 2 years.

Slug

I see where you’er coming from on this, but it’s not a great idea.

A forum is an N-to-N system. A blog is a 1-to-N (or few-to-N) so control of such things is needed and easier.

I am sure there will be some folks out there with good examples, but I’ve never ran into an issue with a slug of any forum I’ve used in all my years.

Thanks for your suggestions and time though

Kev

[_ck_]

I know of at least one very complex, very high volume bbpress site that uses cloning very well. And stand-alone makes the site much more responsive. It even uses several installed copies of bbpress linked very well.

It’s the cost of the environment you chose. If you absolutely insist on using WordPress, you better be ready to throw a ton of hardware at it if you need to scale and insist on deep integration.

It’s perfectly possible to create cached portions of a site or common segments that can be included across WP and bbPress. It’s a matter of intelligent design.

When you start banking on 1mb of code loading per instance and a few dozen queries per user per page because of deep integration, you are guaranteed growth failure sooner or later – it just won’t scale.

[_ck_]

This is a long time bug with bbpress that I’ve pointed out a few times but it’s too late now I guess to change it’s behavior.

The problem is that repermalink is not called before the bb_init hook so little is known about the page you are on.

If you try to call repermalink manually, it may mess up things later because it doesn’t like to be called twice. However in some cases you can get away with it.

Note it’s almost ALWAYS more efficient to bypass the bbpress API unless the data you need is already loaded in memory/cache.

You can calculate the last page with a single get_var query, so it’s more efficient to do that yourself if you need it right away and can’t wait for when the templates start loading (or are bypassing the templates loading).

Since bbpress does not re-calculate post-position when a post is deleted, if there are deleted posts in a topic, the page calculation from the API will almost certainly be wrong (the more deleted, the more likely wrong if the user is not admin). Hence using your own query will again be better.

Somewhere I have a really fancy mysql query to calculate the real page a post is on, let me know if you want me to dig for it.

[_ck_]

He wants the user wall plugin which I cannot release at this time.

And he’s starting to nag because he also asked last month:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-wall-plugin-from-bbshowcase

[pagal]

Plugin have used in bbShowcase Forums….

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/5369/bbpresswall.png

No Personal intentions involve… If _ck_ share it with public then It will be a good addition in bbPress. Or any developer have another idea about it?

Thanks,

Pagal

[chrishajer]

So long as your URL is not using the forum installation that was at http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/ (maybe it’s http://www.example.com/bbpress/ ?) than you can safely delete the files. You might want to look at the bb-config.php and see what the database settings and see if you’re using another database as well, or if you are somehow using the same database and tables.

[chrishajer]

Why such an old version of WordPress?

[zaerl]

Hi Kevin. I found a “solution”. But I’m not proud of my code:

add_action('bb_topic.php', 'the_function');

add_action('bb_edit-post.php', 'the_function');

add_action('bb_forum.php', 'the_function');

add_action('bb_front-page.php', 'the_function');

add_action('whatever_other_template_page.php', 'the_function');

Basically speaking I hook those template pages that I need. The files in the root folder call:

bb_load_template('template_file.php', some_stuff);

in the very last line. That function calls the action bb_template_file.php, include() template_file.php and than calls the action bb_after_template_file.php

Maybe there’s a better solution. I’m not a bbPress expert.

[zaerl]

Quoating and Posting reply: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/ajaxed-quote/

Allowed quicktags: You mean the html tags that can be used in posts? bb_allowed_tags()

Automatic tags: ?

[XU3E]

Hello to developers,

I really love bbPress! Simple and fast! Integration options to WordPress is good way but I really love a idea about stand alone forum solution. Before that, there is few things that should be consideret to next release.

Unread post/topics – Is it really hard to made this? This is main problem of all lightweight forums scripts – no marknig of unread post and parent topics. Just put that to the core and give options to admin. If they are interested about that fetahure they’ll enable it. Or just give us some up-to-date plugins that works and are supported by official dev team.

Quoating and Posting reply – Light weight doesnt mean “no bbcode” or another nice code like !Texy. But please, no HTML or worst – XHTML STRONG tag as formating for messages! I really like simple way to add comments but i cant stay manual formatin of text with HTML. Its such waste of our time!

And where is Quoting support like WP has?

Allowed quicktags – Please, give me options set allowed tags from admin. Or just give better documentation! WordPress is the best because good documentation! I cant spend all day looking for right file just because its not at documentation and sometimes its impossible find some reasonable answers on google.

Automatic tags – This is not serious problem. Just consider…

Slug – Slug like WP. I miss this feathure. Its hard to fix slug problem if i cant directly acces to that from admin. Only way i can do it is mysql.

Thats it! Nothing more. I am new here and i dont follow main goals of project but this is my opinion why is bbPress so uncomfortable to me and my friends.

Its just my opinion and I hope you will consider make some serious progress on it.

Sorry for my english.

Thanks

PS: I hope there will be more good ideas. Topics like this should be general, sticked.

[Greg]

Hmmm, I have always specified the keys in my config files. When I’ve got a moment I will see whether the nonce thing is still an issue.

BTW, here is the BuddyPress thread where Andy confirmed that I needed deep integration. Of course, this may be outdated by now.

[Greg]

_ck_, I would agree if it were just a matter of a clone theme. I operated our site like that for a couple of years. But when your customization goes beyond just a theme, then the costs of “cloning” get high in their own way.

To repeat this thread, the duplication results in higher dev cost, more complexity to maintain and more bugs (to use a Rails-ism, the code isn’t very DRY).

No question that it gets more performance and uses less resources though.

[_ck_]

I’ve been talking about this for years.

The “performance” tag has a few gems in there I’ve written over time.

bb-benchmark will also show you all the queries via the same method and a few other details, unfortunately the newest version is not in the plugin section right now because of how bbpress.org is broken.

Part of the problem on the WP side is many times the plugins do not set their options to autoload (and have a whole bunch of options). I believe bbPress 1.x now has the same problem (it was avoided in 0.9 but re-introduced with backpress).

I have a mini-plugin somewhere for 1.x to load all options with one query.

Some setups can take hours to get the queries down, it’s exhausting

Next you should notice that WP 3.0 + bbPress 1.x takes nearly 1 megabytes of code per instance and in some cases won’t even run on shared hosts because it goes over the PHP ini default setting of 32MB during runtime.

If you are using a tag cloud, my “hot tags plus” will cache the complex query for the tag cloud and all rendering becomes static.

ps. the real answer is not to do deep integration – just make a clone theme for bbpress, it’s worth the effort – the good thing about that is if WP is down, bbpress can still run

[kevinjohngallagher]

Really helpful “Reboot Now”, thanks alot.

Your first issue about the nonce value, I’ve never had it on any normal/shallow integration since I started specifying the all the keys in my config file. Yes it’s double handling but it’s made a huge difference.

the bb-config file asks for this info:

define( 'BB_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

define( 'BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

define( 'BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

define( 'BB_NONCE_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

The bb-config file tells you to get it form this location: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/bbpress/ . But really what you should have in the bbPress config file should be from the wordpress salt generator https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/

I make sure I have an exact copy of my WordPress keys and a copy of my wordpress keys with “BB_” infront of them – and bam, that little issue went teh way of the dodo.

define('AUTH_KEY',         '1');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  '2');

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    '3');

define('NONCE_KEY',        '4');

define('AUTH_SALT',        '5');

define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', '6');

define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   '7');

define('NONCE_SALT',       '8');



define('BB_AUTH_KEY',         '1');

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  '2');

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY',    '3');

define('BB_NONCE_KEY',        '4');

define('BB_AUTH_SALT',        '5');

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT', '6');

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT',   '7');

define('BB_NONCE_SALT',       '8');

FYI incase anyone new to bbPress is reading this: If I do a clean bbPress install I strongly strongly advise using https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/bbpress/ instead which returns 8 lines (we get salts too) which WordPress has needed for 2 years.

[Greg]

I have now (1) figured out how to measure the number of queries correctly for both sides and (2) removed some very silly overhead that was immediately revealed after I achieved (1).

The result is that both Kakumei and my custom theme do around 40 queries on the front page of the forum.

Apologies for all the noise in the two posts before this one — a great illustration of more haste less speed.

ps. One mod to Kevin’s extremely useful suggestion regarding the use of SAVEQUERIES to see where those queries are going… in bbPress you need to print the queries for BOTH the bbPress and WP databases. In other words, you need the following in your forum footer:

global $wpdb, $bbdb;

print_r($wpdb->queries);

print_r($bbdb->queries);

Or just to get the number of queries for both…

global $wpdb, $bbdb;

echo ‘WPDB Queries: ‘ . $wpdb->num_queries;

echo ‘BBDB Queries ‘ . $bbdb->num_queries;

Of course, the “>”s that appear in my code above should be greater than signs.